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Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Tunde835(m): 7:04am On Jul 13, 2025
Do you guys allow foreigners to hold office in your region?
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Irony1: 7:04am On Jul 13, 2025
FreeStuffsNG:
The murder of APC supporters and completely skewed election result from South East, unlike other geopolitical zones, during the last election says it all.

I agree that only reciprocity will assuage the true legitimate concerns of the Yoruba. Resources, including political slots, in Yorubaland are limited and contested for because it cannot even go round the Yoruba.

If you want one in Yorubaland, give one in the South-East to the Yoruba living in the South-East in exchange. Simple, just and sustainable solution.

Even during military rule and early 1990s Igbo mass exodus from Lagos that the Igbo tagged 'oso Abiola', the Yoruba never and will never outsource the economy and political engine of Lagos to non-Yoruba. With systemic institutional undermining of Lagos, weekly bomb blasts and several state-sponsored assassinations of our Yoruba leaders across Yorubaland during military eras, we had nowhere else to run to and valiantly stayed till we won and rebuilt our city before the Igbo started returning to meet a safer and more progressive Lagos. We were happy to receive everyone back to Lagos qith no hard feelings.

Learning from history, it will be unwise for the Yoruba to build a Yoruba society economic and political powerhouse on the drive of Non-Yoruba who enjoy the luxury to easily pick their bags tomorrow to migrate en masse back to their villages and towns in the South-East but if there's mutual exchange or the limited resources, there's a possible chance that Yoruba moderates may shift the needle a bit.

Read LAGOS GUBER & PLIGHT OF IGBOS: Law Of Reciprocity Is The Solution
https://www.nairaland.com/7612989/lagos-guber-plight-igbo-law#121776365
FreeStuffsNG please stop telling lies, when did they murder APC supporters in the south east?
Again on what basis in 2023 did you expect south east to vote for a party that called igbos 5% people, a party that against all advice and warning the president sanctioned a military operation called python dance that led to deaths of innocent people because they wanted to stop IPOB, that move now made people there become more sympathetic to the group.
Based on that and the fact that there was a more capable igbo candidate on LP, did you think they would vote for APC?
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by babtoundey(m): 7:07am On Jul 13, 2025
43Ronin:
Lagos has benefitted immensely from diverce law abiding populace, entrepreneurial, crude oil taxes, vat & consumption taxes. The only people entitled to Lagos are the indigenes, every other person yoruba, Igbo, hausa is a settler and must respect their hosts and show good citizenship by partaking amd contesting elections
Lol. A Yoruba person is a settler in Yorubaland. This sounds ludicrous. You should learn not to equate others social cultural system with yours. Your emotional game of sentiment is unsettling.

A Yorubaman in any part of Yorubaland is at home. A Yoruba of Benin ancestry has more sense of belonging in Lagos and of course any part of South western Nigeria than any resident from South East.

Being Yoruba or Igbo shouldn't be a yardstick to contesting an election. But when you want are doing so, with the sole aim of maligning and disrespecting your host, you can't be trusted with power.
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Irony1: 7:08am On Jul 13, 2025
FreeStuffsNG:
The murder of APC supporters and completely skewed election result from South East, unlike other geopolitical zones, during the last election says it all.

I agree that only reciprocity will assuage the true legitimate concerns of the Yoruba. Resources, including political slots, in Yorubaland are limited and contested for because it cannot even go round the Yoruba.

If you want one in Yorubaland, give one in the South-East to the Yoruba living in the South-East in exchange. Simple, just and sustainable solution.

Even during military rule and early 1990s Igbo mass exodus from Lagos that the Igbo tagged 'oso Abiola', the Yoruba never and will never outsource the economy and political engine of Lagos to non-Yoruba. With systemic institutional undermining of Lagos, weekly bomb blasts and several state-sponsored assassinations of our Yoruba leaders across Yorubaland during military eras, we had nowhere else to run to and valiantly stayed till we won and rebuilt our city before the Igbo started returning to meet a safer and more progressive Lagos. We were happy to receive everyone back to Lagos qith no hard feelings.

Learning from history, it will be unwise for the Yoruba to build a Yoruba society economic and political powerhouse on the drive of Non-Yoruba who enjoy the luxury to easily pick their bags tomorrow to migrate en masse back to their villages and towns in the South-East but if there's mutual exchange or the limited resources, there's a possible chance that Yoruba moderates may shift the needle a bit.

Read LAGOS GUBER & PLIGHT OF IGBOS: Law Of Reciprocity Is The Solution
https://www.nairaland.com/7612989/lagos-guber-plight-igbo-law#121776365
Based on the bolded, you and I know that for you to contest at Local government level, you must be a local that is you must have been living for years in that locality, interacted with the people, the people must know you and vouch for you. Now please show me one Yoruba man who has lived in let's say Fegge Onitsha for years, and I will show you 50 Igbo boys that were born in Agege in the 80s and have lived their lives in that area.
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Irony1: 7:09am On Jul 13, 2025
christistruth01:
What opportunity have you given to others in your own Region?

How many Ebonyi have held Political Positions in Anambra?
Hold on, did you people allow Betty Akeredolu to become a senator in Ondo?
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Irony1: 7:10am On Jul 13, 2025
christistruth01:
What opportunity have you given to others in your own Region?

How many Ebonyi have held Political Positions in Anambra?
You said opportunity given to them you should talk on the context of south west sp please how was it abused in south west. Stop trying to be half clever.
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Celestialsword: 7:13am On Jul 13, 2025
madridguy:
Kano and Borno are also cosmopolitan and I've never seen your people meddled with their elections.
mr.man, I am not Ibo,I am a detribalized Nigerian
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Celestialsword: 7:16am On Jul 13, 2025
Eniitankorede:
Then the people over there are unfriendly and not accommodating others. And yet they want others to accommodate them in foreign lands.
Being a cosmopolitan city has nothing to do with hospitality or unfriendliness of the people
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Irony1: 7:16am On Jul 13, 2025
christistruth01:
What opportunity have you given to others in your own Region?

How many Ebonyi have held Political Positions in Anambra?
Stop trying to be half clever in your analysis. Did you also tell people that igbos also supported her candidacy.

- Critics, including the League of Anambra Professionals (LAP), countered that Bianca had the constitutional right to contest in Anambra as a married woman, regardless of her state of origin. LAP emphasized that Nigerian law permits anyone to run for office in any state if nominated by a political party .
- Similar precedents were cited, such as Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (from Delta) representing Abia as a minister due to her marital ties .

- The controversy was framed as both a patriarchal challenge and a political tactic. Supporters, like journalist Alvan Ewuzie, condemned the opposition as retrogressive and discriminatory against women in politics .

- APGA officials like Chinedu Obigwe maintained that her candidacy was valid, emphasizing that delegates ultimately decided the outcome .
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by stuffs2002: 7:24am On Jul 13, 2025
BlackViper

Let us turn the table and see how many Hausas and Yorubas have been given such opportunity in Igboland
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by madridguy(m): 7:27am On Jul 13, 2025
Your own state is also cosmopolitan city.

Celestialsword:
mr.man, I am not Ibo,I am a detribalized Nigerian
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by SmartyPants(m): 7:30am On Jul 13, 2025
Now it is marginalization that you can't hold political office in another man's land?

Is there any other tribe holding political offices in Lagos?

And what about Kano where the Igbos have also invested heavily? Won't they like to hold political offices there too? Or it's only Lagos?

What is it that our friends across the Niger really want??
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by FILEBE(m): 7:35am On Jul 13, 2025
Smartcitizen:
See this one o!

So Yorubas are too friendly to Igbos I guess?

You must be a joker......

I want to give you an assignment, just pretend to be an Igbo man who wants to buy a property in any area in your region where you are not known and come back to tell us your experience.

I remember the horrible experience my younger brother had when he was building his house around Aja area Lagos State. He was so harassed by your omonile that I almost told him to forget about that building even when he has all the certified documentation from government of lands in LAGOS to build.

How many times have you people destroy and burn down Igbos shops in your region, but were they deterred?

Can you tell me how many average Yorubas has properties in the far north or inside Niger Delta?

Your people are not good in taking risk outside your region, so please don't come here to blame anyone for your lifestyle.

We have already chosen a life of determination in every part of Nigeria we choose to live not minding any nonsense thrown at us so don't come here to blame us when we succeed after taking all these risks.


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Yet Osapa London, lekiki and Vi and Ajah have homes owned by ibos and even streets named after them all over Lagos. I will not engage in an tribal arguments with anyone. It's not worthy as I have seen that people are becoming more tribalsitic. Which is quite alarming and worrisome at what we have become.


My take is don't dish out what you can't take. A non indigene isn't allowed to contest elections in the east even to the extent of not allowing non indigenes to own properties. The lands are ancestral lands and family lands. I get that and I am not debating that. It's your home / land . But if you wouldn't accept all these in your own land . Don't expect others to accept same in their own and . You get?

I don't care who rules or where he/she comes from. It's not like we benefit exclusively being from same tribe as our leaders . I have gone past tribal sentiments and followership. Whoever is good for the job should mount the post.
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by sonofsteven: 7:35am On Jul 13, 2025
[quote author=christistruth01 post=136081911]When you decided to chase SW Indigenes and the Lagos Obas out of Lagos


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Last time I checked, na area boys invade Oba akiolu palace, and when were Lagosian driven out of Lagos?
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by zelnababa(m):
When Tinubu appointed una for his cabinet and una son represented Ajeromi/ifelodun consituency at Abuja, the next thing una say Lagos na no man's land. Oya now owners of d land don take over . 2027 go be season film,
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by AguluLiar: 7:47am On Jul 13, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
If such can be reciprocated in Anambra and Abia, it would be a good development.
Only Ibos lives in Anambra and Abia.
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by stuffs2002: 7:47am On Jul 13, 2025
ezekins:
How many yorubas live in anambra and abia states? The igbos in lagos have the capacity to gather a good number of votes in lagos because of their population in lagos. So it's logical to hold such view. Secondly igbos have immensely invested in lagos by way of acquisition of landed properties but go to anambra and abia states you used as comparison to know how many landed properties you can say it's owned by a yoruba person. So when you want to make comparison use logical comparison.
Election has to do with population and aligning interest.
Igbo investment in Lagos is a tiny fraction of Hausa investment yet no Hausa is claiming that Lagos is No man's land. No Hausa is trying to kick out the indigenes out of Lagos. No Hausa is crying upandan
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by stuffs2002: 7:49am On Jul 13, 2025
Slytiger:
I think Ohaneze Ndigbo should order the Igbo businesses that are the so called "developers" of the Lagos economy to return to the South East where they are genuinely needed.

In five years, they will build another Lagos in the East & reverse the migration westwards.

It can be done. grin
Reversing the migration would mean 90% of the criminals will leave
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Branco6(m): 7:50am On Jul 13, 2025
Bros just say you are speaking for yourself because no SE person is interested in holding any position in that place
QED
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Celestialsword: 7:51am On Jul 13, 2025
madridguy:
Your own state is also cosmopolitan city.
no,I live in the village
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Branco6(m): 7:51am On Jul 13, 2025
stuffs2002:
Igbo investment in Lagos is a tiny fraction of Hausa investment yet no Hausa is claiming that Lagos is No man's land. No Hausa is trying to kick out the indigenes out of Lagos. No Hausa is crying upandan
Do you guys actually believe this rubbish you spew or is the delulu actually real and reaching advanced levels
Because grin grin grin
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by Goke7: 7:52am On Jul 13, 2025
Can this country be restructured, please?
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by AguluLiar: 7:52am On Jul 13, 2025
Smartcitizen:
How many Yorubas have businesses in the place you mentioned?

You can't stay in your brown leaking roof room and be asking for power in another region.

Come and see what others are seeing in another person region before they set up businesses and you will shut up by force.


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You're right.

Only Ibos live in Ibo land.
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by iLoveYouToo(m):
Yorubas are fighting to keep hold of and control political power in their region, I can’t blame them.

The argument of contributing so much to Lagos and now wanting to hold elective positions doesn’t make sense. Lagos built you but you claim you’re the one building it.

Do we have Igbos handing out free meals and stipends on the streets of Lagos?

How many schools and hospitals have Easterners built and handed over to the Lagos government?

You’re running your private businesses and trade and claim you’re building Lagos.

Like someone submitted, reciprocity is key. If you want a chairmanship position in the SW, be ready to relinquish same in the SE. Or are we not all in Nigeria and contributing to Nigeria’s growth? Lagos is better than ‘home’, otherwise you won’t be in Lagos.

You can relocate back to your enclaves and make a Lagos out of them. Don’t you love your homes again?
Re: Ohaneze: Igbos Deserve To Hold Political Offices In Lagos by christistruth01: 7:54am On Jul 13, 2025
sonofsteven:
Last time I checked, na area boys invade Oba akiolu palace, and when were Lagosian driven out of Lagos?

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